Questions related to video playback and recording in Ubuntu. For questions about video cards, use "graphics".
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Lenovo X1 - HDMI Output
I'm facing problems with HDMI output to my TV (Ölevia HD-TV). When I connect HDMI cable computer / tv I can see the detect each other, and on display configuration I can see the other display, but for ...
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Screen tearing on videos (not flash videos)
I mean video files on my hard drive. I get noticeable screen tearing on VLC, Totem, gnome mplayer and Mplayer. I have tried fglrx drivers and now the experimental AMD drivers.
I have a Radeon HD6950 ...
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Video driver Radeon x1200
04 and i got the issue when i play fash games or videos it's too slow, i reinstalled Ubuntu and it worked smooth for like 5 hours then i rebooted and again slow.
When i type
sudo lshw -C display
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How to achieve better quality in creating video from .jpg files with avconv?
I'm trying to make video from many jpg files exported by paraView. I have already found out that 'avconv' can do that but the output quality is just not so good even with -s hd1080 option written in.
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YouTube Videos Stopped Streaming
I have been dealing with this problem for a couple of days but couldn't find a solution. I've posted on a forum before but nobody answered. Any help?
A couple of days ago a problem started to occur. ...
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How do I resume an interrupted video stream recording?
I'm trying to start a recording every evening, starting from 19:00 and stopping at 02:00. The webcam does export its stream as rtsp video stream and I am able to start the recording correctly with VLC ...
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twitch.tv video full screen opens on different monitor?
I have a Nvidia eVGA GeForce GTX 680 and I am running three monitors off of it. Whenever I watch the live streams on twitch.tv and I want to watch in full screen via the little button on the bottom of ...
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Asus Eee PC R101d videos don't play properly in Lubuntu 12.10
I installed Lubuntu 12.10 on an Asus Eee PC R101D (Intel Atom N450, Intel GMA 3150). And there is a problem with video playback. It won't play videos properly, only stuttering, extremely slow, ...
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Unity window effects/animations very slow on Ubuntu 12.10 with Radeon HD 6770 (3 monitors)
I've installed 12.10 with the proprietary Radeon drivers and am spanning a desktop across three monitors:
$ dpkg -l fg*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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I have lost a 30GB Folder
i was using a video player running a movie. the player (movie player that is coming by default on ubuntu) was freezing and the file and others files in the same folder (30 GB ) was missing. still ...
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Can't capture video from usb-webcam with ffmpeg
i have a hama usb webcam which works fine with the fswebcam command to capture single frames but when i try to capture a video with ffmpeg i get an error:
sudo ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 ...
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display resolution question
My machine has two hard drives, one has Fedora 64bit and one has Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. When running Fedora, I can set the resolution to 1600x1200. But I can only get 1280x1024 when Ubuntu is running.
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High quality videos are jittery on Ubuntu 12.04
This is a pretty new install. I have activated ATI drivers (some reason the post release updates one won't download) and I have VLC. My computer can handle HD videos fine, and they run flawlessly on ...
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Slow hd in Ubuntu 12.04 Intel Sandybridge mobile
I got a computer with a preinstalled version of Windows 7 but I decided to install Ubuntu, but there is a problem during the hard drive is too slow. I have an Intel Sandybridge mobile graphic ...
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How can I upgrade the video driver for Ubuntu 12
When I play videos, whether they're avi, wmv, or mkv, the colors are not correct (all deep blues and browns). I have a feeling a need a specific driver for my built in video circuit (it's a Compaq ...
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Why can't VLC see my webcam's microphone?
My goal is to stream my webcam over https. Any recommendations beyond webcam-server and cvlc are welcome.
From VLC, I can say
Media -> Open Capture Device
and leave the video 4 linux 2 capture ...
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ffserver troubleshooting. streaming video from ubuntu server
I have a raring ring-tail server, which I want to stream video from an attached USB webcam.
I have followed this guide to install ffmpeg, ffserver, and numerous codecs.
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Skype 4.2.0.11 Crashes on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit During Video Call After Receiving IM
Having an issue with Skype crashing while in a video call when anyone sends me an IM. I can have a Skype video call without any problems for any duration just as long as I don't receive any IM's ...
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Wine video resolution deteriorates after installing Ubuntu 13.04
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 from the previous version, I noted that the graphics of the cards on the Windows card games look more grainy, but what is worse is that small icons in the toolbar of ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 freezes when playing video in browser
I recently upgraded to 13.04 and just now, the whole system freezes when I was watching a YouTube video. I had to force quit and reboot my laptop, but the problem still persists when I try to watch ...
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How to set duration for avconv?
I'm trying to cut a portion from an mp4 video with avconv, but it doesn't seem to care about the -t param.
My command line is
avconv -t 10 -i GOPR0001.MP4 cut.MP4
This will process the whole ...
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Why the installation fails for this package? it says linux-headers not found but it is there
This package is failing to get installed, but the linux-headers are installed.
root@sun-Alienware-X51:/var/tmp# uname -a
Linux sun-Alienware-X51 3.5.0-28-generic #48~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 24 ...
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Dual monitor freeze after login after 13.04 upgrade
I just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04 and my HDMI Video output stopped working. I've a dual monitor setup with dvi and HDMI display. Dvi works fine. Xrandr shows hdmi1 as connected. Graphic card is a ...
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Integrate network shares in lens results
I have movies, music and photos on a NAS that I have permanently mounted through /etc/fstab. I noticed when I go into the launcher and click on any of the music, photo and video lens, the results do ...
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Google Chrome black screen tearing
When I open OMGUbuntu site(or some other page), I get screen tearing http://ubuntuone.com/53v8xOJexIu1eDqS87RvZ8
Also sometimes videos doesn't work. Sometimes I can watch just fullscreen, sometimes ...
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12.10; NVidia 285; Gnome 3; Renderer shows Gallium
I know there have been a number of posts/articles about getting NVIDIA to work under Ubuntu. Yet after extensive searching I haven't found one that has gotten me where I need to be.
Here is my ...
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Sapphire 7970 does not show up on lspci
I just put a new Sapphire 7970 graphics card into my rig, but it does not show up when I run lspci. Is there something I have to do to get it to show up or does that mean I don't have it installed ...
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editing youtube video description, titles through terminal
Is there a way to edit youtube video description and title/tags through terminal?
If so, then how to do it? unfortunately, googlecl does not have such function yet.
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Ubuntu won't recognize my video card and shows white screen with unintelligible characters
I just installed Ubuntu to run side-by-side with a yet to be activated Window 7 Ultimate.
I tried both of the 32-bit version of Ubuntu and both say they don't recognize my video card after the ...
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Unable to play 1080p videos
i am dual booting windows and ubuntu (12.04), and i am unable to play any videos(1080p) on it , while on windows everything works fine.
I have -
-tried different media players (vlc, movie player ...
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How do I change video resolution before the video card takes over?
I had a wide screen monitor die on me. :-(
The only other monitor I have doesn't seem to support the wide resolution I had on the big monitor.
When I try to boot it up, using the smaller ...
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skype does not see logitech pro 9000 - ubuntu 12.04
This camera works fine with cheese, but while it appears as the USB device skype recognizes, there is no video shown.
This post and others mention libv4l-0.
apt-get install libv4l-0 reports that ...
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Video hangs with nvidia 9600 GT
System seems to "hang in the foreground" but continues processing in the background. This appears to happen primarily during operations that rely on 3D acceleration. My system is as follows:
ABit ...
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Can I install Ubuntu 12.10 without installing video drivers?
So I have an old (got it FREE) laptop that my mom gave me after she spilled coffee on it. I was able to clean it and get it running Windows XP. I was only able to do this by letting it BSOD and ...
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Video tearing on Radeon running Ubuntu 12.10 need help with xorg.conf (I think)
I've recently managed to get 3D accelerated graphics working on my laptop with a Radeon HD 7520G. I'm using the default Xorg driver (i.e., not the proprietary ones which seem to create worse problems ...
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Why can't I install codec for ffmpeg?
When I run
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-53
I get
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libavcodec-extra-53 : Depends: libfaac0 but it is not installable
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Installing USB 2.0 Video Grabber with Audio
I got USB 2.0 Video Grabber with Audio by Monoprice as a gift from my brother and i can't get it to work on Ubuntu 12.10, and I am still new to Ubuntu. Ubuntu wont read the device at all when plugged ...
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Looking for Compatabile external usb video adapter for ubuntu 12.04
I have a gateway sx that has two video output ports 1 DVI and one VGA. The DVI port went bad and I want to add an external usb vga video card that will work with ubuntu 12.04 64 bit so I can use 2 ...
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fast forward/reverse or jump to specific time in video minidlna streamed content to TV
I am successfully using minidlna to stream content between my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop and a Samsung SMART TV with AllShare system. The only problem I see is that there is no way to jump to a specific ...
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videoplayback with GL
I have an issue with playing video with video output GL or GLX.
I have an ATI HD 5850 with tear free desktop and the playback works great but the problem is when I move the mouse and the menu of the ...
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what is the issue between VLC and Firefox in ubuntu 12.04?
In ubuntu with the XFCE interface when I have VLC loaded and attempt to load Firefox the video freezs and loops for almost a minute. I have a 64 bit AMD with 2 gb of ram. I am also running a nvidia ...
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How to read ANSI encoded .srt files in the right way?
Is there anyway of any media player that I can view Arabic ANSI encoded .srt files in the right way without converting them to UTF-8 encoding ?
I tried VLC, Gnome mplayer and the default Movie player ...
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unable to get Point Grey USB camera working
I have problem in using POINT GREY FIREFLY MV FMVU-13S2C digital camera to work on Ubuntu 11.04.
This is the version of ubuntu.
adrian@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
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video track length of Canon Legria HF M306 produced videos
I am having problems working with video clips produced by Canon Legria HF M306. Some tools seem to detect them as 25 fps progressive and other as 50 fps interlaced, it seems. The result is that, e.g., ...
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How do I install these libraries/codecs for Matlab?
I just installed matlab on my computer, seemingly successfully, but I've been trying to run a program, and I'm getting the following error:
>> reproduceResults
Warning: Directory already ...
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AMD dual graphics laptop movie playback
Recently I bought an AMD APU based laptop (A6 3420M + Radeon 7670M), installed the proprietary driver (AMD Catalyst) and everything works fine except for movie playback in the fullscreen -- it seems ...
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Installing mesa-utils messes up video driver info
After I installed mesa-utils in order to get rid of the "Unknown Driver" message (see here) I got contradicting info about which driver is actually being used.
"System Settings" says: Gallium 0.4 on ...
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Black screen while booting, after installing AMD Catalyst™ 12.8 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver on HP pavilion dm4
HP Pavilion dm4 with configuration as shown below
cpu intel Core i5 2.26 GHz
RAM 4.0 GB
Graphics processor 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) HD 5450 switchable graphics [HDMI, VGA].
I installed ubuntu ...
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Serious video problems on Intel G33 - Ubuntu 12.04
After install and run Nuvola Player, it does not end the session opened.
After the installation, it left a bug in Unity. When I put the mouse over the bar in some application, sometimes does not ...
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Getting Dazzle DVC 100 to work in ubuntu
I just jumped ship from windows 7, I have everything working with the dazzle dvc 100...
I have tv time installed but it doesnt have it as a input...
Help please?
